[Baren} the mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking Baren Digest Tuesday, 2 May 2000 Volume 11 : Number 995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:39:34 EDT Subject: [Baren 9575] printing demonstration Hi all, this past weekend April and I demonstrated hanga-style printing at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens "Sakura Matsuri" (Cherry Blossom Festival). We had lovely weather both days and were swamped with people of all sizes, shapes, nationalities, interests, etc! Quite a variety, and so many people were interested in learning how to print this way. I'm sure April's class this summer will be jammed full! Kids really loved watching us print, it was a bit like magic to them as they watched us rub with the baren and waited for us to lift the paper up with a new color on it. A lot of artists came to visit us also, and of course we referred those who were interested to woodblock.com, so we may have a rash of new members soon- happy printing all, Sarah ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 11:44:07 -0700 Subject: [Baren 9576] ebay hanga Someone (Dan?) asked what to look for in Japanese prints on ebay. You can get a good overall view of bits & pieces of Hanga on ebay. Just do a search on your favorite artist & see what comes up. Some of _my_ favorites are: Hansui (out of my price range - but lovely to look at) Hiroshige (some good, some bad- just keep looking) Kunimaru (lovely color-unuaual composition) Hokosai (I know, I'm a beginner)....and no, they are not all landscapes & samurai warriors. They are almost any subject you can think of. A reference book from the library will give you some names to search on. Have fun! And don't spend all your money in one place. Wanda ------------------------------ From: Arafat Alnaim Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 12:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 9577] The origin of the Baren In previous discussion on this form about the origin of the Baren some of the members mentioned different stories about the origin of Baren and who it was introduced to Japan. In their Book Evolving Techniques in Japanese Woodblock Prints, Gaston Petit and Amadio Arboleda wrote “Baren presumably originated in china and was introduced in Japan during the Muroachi period (1392-1572)”. According to this information Baren was known in Japan before creating or establishing the school of Ukiyo-e. Any comments on this! What about the former Printmaking Forms known in Japan before Ukiyo-e? Regards to all Arafat Al-Naim ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 10:12:52 -1000 Subject: [Baren 9578] Re: ebay hanga Wanda wrote: > You can get a good overall view of bits & pieces of Hanga on ebay. Just > do a search on your favorite artist... ...also, you can just type in a search for the word "woodblock" in title and description, and you end up with a wide range of prints, and books on woodblock printing too! Jack Aiea, Hawaii ------------------------------ From: michael schneider Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 00:34:25 +0200 Subject: [Baren 9579] Re: The origin of the Baren Arafat Alnaim wrote: > In their Book Evolving Techniques > in Japanese Woodblock Prints, Gaston Petit and Amadio > Arboleda wrote “Baren presumably originated in china > and was introduced in Japan during the Muroachi period > (1392-1572)”. Sounds like a interesting book to me, can you give me some more information about it so I can find it here in austria too. The discussion before concentrated on the name "baren". There is no doubt about the origin of the tool beeing in China. But the strange thing is that other things with chinese origin in japan kept their chinese name, at least somehow. michael vienna/ austria ------------------------------ From: baren_member@woodblock.com (Rudolf Stalder) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 03:47:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Baren 9580] press Message posted by: Rudolf Stalder >to Graham : I got a new press last year ..... I had a look at your press, it looks great ! Perhaps we should make an exposition somewhere on a Island in the Pacific. The cost we could simply share at equal parts between the two of us, giving everybody a good example. >to Barbara : Why do you have the three rollers on the top? I think you understood correctly : The installation of long single rollers allows no adaptation to plates which are not flat, whereas a serial/parallel installation of short rollers does. If the printing plate is larger than the rollers this kind of installation would be needed even if the plate is flat, just to bridge the gap in between the ‘serial’ rollers. That for artistic printing a serial/parallel installation of short rollers may be superior to long single rollers is of course of major interest, as short rollers such as the ones I used for my press cost only about $ 10 each. Rudolf Stalder ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V11 #995 ****************************